unrequited love

Back Cover:

From model secretary…
For three years, Kalera has been a model secretary to Duncan Royal, with only one hiccup in their otherwise perfect relationship: a one-night stand that should never have happened, and which both have tried to forget. Or so Kalera thought.

…to the boss’s mistress?
But Duncan is haunted by their one night of unbelievable passion, and secretly longs for their relationship to develop after office hours. As a rule, he can have any woman he wants -- so he's furious when Kalera announces her engagement to another man! Whatever it takes, Duncan intends to entice her into his bed once more -- and this time it will be forever.    

Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree  

Favourite Scene: (revealing of his personality)

"One day you're going to be goaded into a challenge you can't win," she told him.

"I'm as gracious in defeat as I am in victory," he said, and laughed at her incredulous look. "All right, so I rage and sulk and throw things...but I' m quick to get over it."
 

Favourite Scene: (he's undressing her after their wedding, such reverence!  I could visualize this scene)

But he didn't make any response to her slightly nervous comment.

Instead he dropped down on one knee in front of her and started to kiss
his way around the bare flesh at top of her stocking, pausing to slowly
unclip her suspenders and then roll the fine silk down her leg,
following it with the caress of his lips.

My Review:

Good story.  This is about Lucy, who has had a crush on the hero since college, she thought it was unreciprocated, so she went on the defensive and married another man, who turned out to be a sleaze ball who cheated on her, ruined her business financially, and then ran out.  So now Lucy is divorced and trying to get her business back on it's feet.  She meets Marcus again and because she's drunk she hits on him and he for some reason doesn't knock her back.  Having spent the night together, all of a sudden Marcus sees Lucy as a good potential wife of convenience, it's time he marries, so why not Lucy?